J.N. v. State

HUBBART, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final order which withholds adjudication in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and places the juvenile J.N. in a program of community control. The juvenile urges as his sole point on appeal that the trial court erred in entering a finding of delinquency because (a) the proceedings below resulting in this finding were the functional equivalent of a nolo contendere plea, and (b) the record fails to reflect that the juvenile was informed of and thereafter knowingly and intelligently waived the constitutional rights normally incident to a trial, as required…